The 11,072-meter-long Hutong Yangtze River Bridge, linking the cities of Nantong and Suzhou, is designed with a main span of 1,092 meters, making it the world's first road-rail cable-stayed bridge with a span over 1,000 meters. Aerial view of the Changtai Yangtze river bridge., was successfully topped out on May 6. mp/eb2ddb The world's longest cable-stayed bridge opened to traffic in China's eastern Jiangsu province on September 9, 2025. The bridge, which connects Changzhou and Taizhou, slashes travel time. It is a grand engineering structure 10.